I hate the mouse; keyboard for everything! Vim and tilling window managers or bust! We built this game as a simulacrum of that hacker-man stereotype mashing keys ’till the machine explodes.
Again using Godot and leveraging the ever versatile input system, developing in under a month everything snaps into place! We have more ideas for this project, adding more weapons and a short campaign like that of rouge-likes, but for now we work on bigger things.
Built for EGADS Texas Game Jame 2023, theme “It’s a trap!”. This project provided a lovely refresher on Unreal and learning some of the changes with version five. A very cute and stylish physics-based platformer!
Working at Sandshark Games I programmed games of various genres. I learned the bounty of lovely foot guns Roblox has to offer. I spent a fair amount of time learning and helping others through the scripting support section of the devforum!
I teach Roblox as a after school program with local business “My Coding Place”!
Having fun teaching mi amor game programming for Wasm4. We had a hard drive failure but pressed on to re-make the game, this time with back ups! I even bought the domain name “zoopzoopadventures.com”.
You may see both Zig and Wasm4 later in this list, I find this language and fantasy console joyous to work with. This is my second Wasm4 project and a avenue to teach Zig!
First time using Godot I grouped up with my friends to make a aim training idle game. I like Godot’s quick launch, sane defaults, and broad feature set.
In my free time I crochet blankets, ponchos, and scarfs for my friends and family. I prefer to make colorful flat images for these, previously I would print out an image, draw a grid and stitch marks over it. This took a lot of counting and other work I would like done by computers. This was also a great excuse to use Zig a programming language I love!
Zig has been wonderful to program personal games, and integrates well with wasm4. Which I participated in the wasm4 game jam and published to the core! My super cute girlfriend and I am programming a multiplayer game with wasm4 which will make use of the new net play feature! This is zoop zoop!
I added new features to a large code base, including working on UI. I worked hand in hand with designers and had a great time! Gamigo held a game jam of which I lead a team to create Solario. As of writing this RIFT is in maintenance mode and will not be receiving updates.
We won the IGF 2021 best student game award!
I was the lead programmer on a team of six developers making Vessels, a narrative focused puzzle/exploration game. I created a concise dialogue system for designers to write and test in-game dialogue and story paths quickly.
I wrote a good amount on what tools we looked at, how I implemented this system as a virtual machine, and what I believe are important design philosophies in my blog post Game Dialogue Systems. When making a scripting language I knew we’d be throwing away valuable debugging tools, I made sure to keep the scope low, strict, and loud with tests/warnings as we needed new features.
I made tools for automatic and manual lip syncing in Flappatron, a unique and charming game. I reached out to the lead developer with recommendations on how to solve the lip syncing time sink they were facing, but open source and custom automatic solutions weren’t capable of handling the wide variety of characters and voices. We opted to speed up the manual syncing process with custom tools.
I had an itch for diving in to OpenGL since I knew it would allow for 3D games and more complex, fun rendering techniques. I started with a sequel to “Meme Game” called “Meme Game 2: 3D”. The game is a boss-rush like Star Fox 64 without the basic enemies, there is a mini-game between bosses to collect power ups for later use. I wanted specific audio features like looping music so I spent some time figuring out SDL2’s bare bones audio buffer system.
The following is a little trailer I made for “Meme Game 2”, with less debugging spheres and more thanking.
I wrote an asynchronous HTTPS server in C++ using boost’s ASIO library, to prepare for Code2College teaching since I didn’t have much web dev experience before that. It should be live at gerthouse.com.
It’s a link aggregate site hosted on a Raspberry Pi, my implementation takes from RFC7230. Though I don’t allow most file manipulation functionality, instead sticking to what a browser would send.
I’ve since written another HTTP server in Zig a lovely experimental language that comes with TCP networking in the standard library.
My last 2D project before digging into 3D was “Meme Game” made for a specific community, of which I even got some story and art help from! It’s asteroid controls doing boss fights, and the boss fights were fun to program. With their help my focus was on programming and making the enemies unique.
This is the intended streamer playing the finished game.
This is a sample of “Dad Slayer Six” a wave-based twin stick shooter with power ups and a turret thing. Later my friend helped by doing audio, music, and some art. Coded in C++ with SDL2.
My first attempt at a proper 2D game is working-titled “Ant Farm”. It’s a idle increment game using resource collection in such games as Starcraft or Age of Empires. I argue it’s still in development because I want to convert it from 2D to 3D as a opportunity to study Vulkan.
I started game programming early on with this 2D Galaga-type game written in Ruby. My father helped plenty and we gave a talk about it at a local Ruby on Rails meet up! The code is over 10 years old and doesn’t run without updating gosu calls.